On 1 July 2013 22:33, Amos wrote: > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Did you try building those libraries as part of the GCC build, as >> described at http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/InstallingGCC ? That should >> automatically build them correctly and give you a working compiler >> (probably 32-bit, but capable of building 64-bit objects too.) > > No joy with that route either: > > I was able to compile gcc-4.0.2 fully 64-bit, but not only did I have > to set the various environment settings to include "-m64", but I also > had to fiddle with the specs file to force the default of "-m64" for > the multilib stuff to get the xgcc stage to finish compiling without > blowing-up. > > Now I'm wondering if I need to somehow suggest the specs during the > gcc build process to default to 64bit. You shouldn't need to do any of that or set any env variables.